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All the Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
5.0
adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

All the stars, one of the top books of 2024 for me.

This is an epic literary crime novel that is a beautifully bleak and yet hopeful character driven study of trauma, loss, regret, searching for the truth and the power of memory.

Like no other crime/mystery novel I've read.

A must read, even at 584 pages, it flies by and not a word is wasted and so much sits in the space between words. I dare you not to get wholly invested and caught up in this huge, sweeping and utterly absorbing story.